<p>Graduation Project Supervisor - Special Issue Supervisor</p>
<p>Cristina Cochior is a researcher and designer. She is a member of the everyday technology collective Varia, as well as part of the tutor team in the Hacking department of the Willem de Kooning Academie and in the Experimental Publishing department of the Piet Zwart Institute. Her work revolves around situated software, and poetics and politics of computational logic, with a focus on digital knowledge organisation and transmission. Together with other members of Varia, she works on collective, non-extractive digital infrastructures. With Jara Rocha and Karl Moubarak, she is currently part of a research group around digital discomfort. Recent projects she’s been part of include VLTK - Vernacular Language Toolkit, Digital Solidarity Networks, and Bots as Digital Infrapunctures.</p>
<p>She is a PhD researcher at the <ahref="https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/">Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University</a>, in collaboration with <ahref="https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/">The Photographer’s Gallery</a>, looking into the material and social impact of the networked image on the climate crisis, with special attention to the entanglements between greenwashing - the misdirection of attention and efforts in tackling the crisis - and the increasing energy and resource consumption associated with the circulation of networked images. Typical of those in the post-despair stage, she experiments with sustainable ways of publishing her findings.</p>
<p>Marloes has participated in exhibitions internationally, teaches workshops, gives lectures (a.o. at Transmediale and Chaos Communication Congress) and has published articles on Free/Libre/Open Source Software, free culture, art and technology (a.o. in the Contemporary Music Review and Artnodes). In 2018 she was the winner of the Hash Award, an international production award granted by ZKM and Akademie Schloss Solitude. As a member of artist collective GOTO10, she has helped develop the puredyne GNU/Linux distribution and Make Art festival. Together with Aymeric Mansoux she is editor of the publication FLOSS+Art, published early 2009. She is part of Plutonian Corp., La Société Anonyme and Iodine dynamics.</p>